Your accessory evolution

[bluenoser]

It funny you should post this as I was thinking about this last night after ordering the wine cooler. When I first started lurking over at puff last fall I decided to go against everyone's advice and bout the smallest box I could find. figured I'd line it with spanish cedar and it'd be all I ever need. Then my first order showed up and I had to buy a large hinged jar instead so I could fit everything in. Problem with that was when my next order showed up I was in need of another. Then another. Then couldn't keep the infused in with the rest so I needed another. Now I'm contemplating some box purchases and tired of buying jars so I decided to jump both feet into a wineador. That should be all the space I ever need... right???

Humidity, I bought a %72 boveda to start with. Thinking that %70 was a good starting point and with the lack of humidity here in Saskatchewan the %72 would be good. I found my sticks had a lot of burn issues so I jumped down to %62's when I started multiple humi-jars. Now for the wineador I'm going to give the %65 HF bead's a go.

As for accessories I started out with a sharpened .308 casing (from my first white tail) and an old zippo. I wanted to give a guillotine cutter a go and bought a 50 cent single blade along with an order and that quickly found it's way to the trash. I ordered a nice spanish cedar cigar sleeve that I rarely use since I rarely smoke away from home. Then needed storage for travel so bought a setup from cheaphumidors that came with a 4 cigar caddy, torch lighter and dual blade cutter. the cutter still seems to maul the cigars a bit but its light years ahead of the single blade. Along with my new pipe smoker trade I was gifted a nice xikar torch lighter. I'll be on the search for a v cut here soon. Really want to give one a go.

As for lessons I've learned,
Want a 50 count humi go 100, want a 100 go 250, better to have more space than not enough.
Rely on the BOTL's knowledge and experience, I've learned more from the fine folks here than I could in a lifetime on google.
Research and try before buying large quantities.
Don't listen to me, I'm usually just guessing.

[allusred]

Have had couple higher quality,widely touted brand name guillotine cutters, that failed badly.
A zeno, cut fine...until screws fell out as it disassembled itself. A Xikar cut nicely, then got a tired,far too quickly, I think, started mangling the cigars.
Have been using a V cutter and a guillotine cutter both are from Craftsman Bench, work very well, don't think calling these heavy duty is right, but the blades in the first mentioned cutters, were very thin, the cutters looked far better than they performed.Craftsman bench cutters seem more solidly constructed without any clunkiness operate in what I'd call a crisper fashion, in that the cutting action is fast, accurate and clean. Don't recall the price, nor where I purchased them.Am pretty sure you'd be able to dredge up some information without too much trouble. They're reasonably priced as I recall. May not be what you want, but might well be worth checking out.